Commercial Plumbing in Phoenix

Commercial plumbing in Phoenix starts with the building, because the same backup has a different cause and a different rule behind it at a shopping center, a restaurant or a warehouse. These are the property types we are called to most, and where we start at each one.

• Property managers. A manager needs one plumber across several sites and a record of each job for the owner and the tenant. When sewage comes up in a building with several tenants, stop water use and keep people away from it before anything else. For water pouring from a broken line, see emergency commercial pipe burst repair. Read what to do first in a multi-tenant sewer backup and our plumbing for property management companies.
• Retail centers. Suites in a strip center often drain into one shared building sewer, so a backup in one suite can start in a line the whole building uses. In Phoenix the sewer line from the building to the public main is the property owner's to clean, maintain and repair (Phoenix City Code 28-5). We run a camera from a cleanout and use its locator to mark where the problem is before anyone digs. See commercial sewer camera inspection and who pays for a shared sewer clog in a strip mall.
• Restaurants. Phoenix food businesses must keep their grease interceptors working and keep pumping records for three years. The city's grease manual has gravity interceptors pumped at least every three months and grease traps every 30 days, or sooner once grease and solids reach 25 percent of capacity (City of Phoenix FOG manual). A kitchen line that backs up between pump-outs needs the line cleaned, not just the trap. See restaurant plumbing and how often a Phoenix restaurant must pump its interceptor.
• Warehouses and manufacturing. Long yard lines and big slabs hide leaks. We find water line leaks under concrete or asphalt with a line locator and ultrasonic sounding equipment, so the dig is small and in the right place. A building with a backflow assembly must have it tested at least once a year by a certified tester, with the results sent to the city (Phoenix City Code 37-143), and HQ is certified to test domestic assemblies. See warehouse and industrial plumbing.

Whatever the building, our workmanship carries a two-year warranty. It does not cover a pipe that later fails on its own, and materials carry the maker's warranty, usually one year. Call for a free estimate and an upfront price.

We match the equipment to the job. A smaller stoppage gets a cable machine. On a larger restaurant, hotel or retail system, a two-person team runs a high-powered jetter from the cleanouts to pull the grease and sludge out of the line and flush it through to the city main.

We work on grease interceptors of all sizes. When a Maricopa County health inspector flags missing or broken baffles, the interceptor is pumped out, a three-person crew makes the confined-space entry and reinstalls the baffles, and then we jet and camera the lines going in and coming out. See grease interceptor baffle repair.

For a gas leak, we cap every appliance at its connector and air test the system from the meter to find it. When the gas company has shut the gas off and the building needs a gas clearance, we pull the permit, run the air test and get the city inspection passed so the gas company can turn it back on. See commercial gas line repair in Phoenix.

The costly calls are usually the ones a schedule would have caught: a grease device past its limit, a missed backflow test, a main line full of roots. A plan puts those on the calendar. See what a commercial plumbing maintenance plan should include and tell us what your building has. We will help you build the schedule during the free estimate.